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  • ORDINATIONE CONTRA SERVIENTES
    A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. Orig. 189.
  • ORDINATUM EST
    In old practice. It is ordered. The initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin. Ordine plaeltandi servato, aerratnr et jns. When the order of pleading is observed, the law also is observed. Co. Litt 303a; Broom, Max. 188.
  • ORDINES
    A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a particular order.
  • ORDINES MAJORES ET MINORES
    In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called "or dines majores;" and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte were called "ordines minores" Persons ordained to the More...
  • ORDINIS BENEFICIUM
    Lat In the civil law. The benefit or privilege of order; the privilege which a surety for a debtor had of requiring that his principal should be discussed, or thoroughly prosecuted, before the creditor could resort to him. Nov. 4, c. 1; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 21, 883.
  • ORDINUM FIGITIVI
    In old English law. Those of the religious who deserted their houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order In contempt of their oath and other obligations. Paroch. Antlq. 388.
  • ORDO
    Lat. That rule which monks were obliged to observe. Order; regular succession. An order of a court -Ordo albns. The white friars or Augustines. Du Cange.-Ordo attaohlamentornm. In old practice. The order of attachments. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 51, | 12.-Ordo grisens. The gray friars, or order of Cistercians. Du More...
  • ORDONNANCE
    Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a compilation or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject-matter, as, commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation of the law relating to prizes and captures at sea. See Coolidge v. Inglee, 13 Mass. 43.
  • ORE-LEAVE
    A license or right to dig and take ore from land. Ege v. Kille, 84 Pa. 340.
  • ORE TENUS
    Lat By word of mouth; orally. Pleading was anciently carried on ore tenus, at the bar of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. 203.
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